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.\"     Title: faillog
.\"    Author: Julianne Frances Haugh
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.\"      Date: 07/22/2021
.\"    Manual:  File Formats and Conversions
.\"    Source: shadow-utils 4.9
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "FAILLOG" "5" "07/22/2021" "shadow\-utils 4\&.9" "File Formats and Conversions"
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.SH "NAME"
faillog \- login failure logging file
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
/var/log/faillog
maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account\&.
.PP
The file contains fixed length records, indexed by numerical UID\&. Each record contains the count of login failures since the last successful login; the maximum number of failures before the account is disabled; the line on which the last login failure occurred; the date of the last login failure; and the duration (in seconds) during which the account will be locked after a failure\&.
.PP
The structure of the file is:
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struct	faillog {
	short   fail_cnt;
	short   fail_max;
	char    fail_line[12];
	time_t  fail_time;
	long    fail_locktime;
};
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.SH "FILES"
.PP
/var/log/faillog
.RS 4
Failure logging file\&.
.RE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBfaillog\fR(8)
